Once upon a time, bullpen carts were all the rage. Catching on in the mid 1960s, they made sure no relief pitcher would have to touch his feet to the ground when traveling from the bullpen to the ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Tyler Austin, born and raised in Georgia, and drafted by the New York Yankees in 2010, has an unexpected bit of home-field advantage in the Olympic baseball being played at Yokohama ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Tuesday that they are bringing back a generational classic that has been absent from baseball for more than two decades: The bullpen cart. This is actually happening ...

During Thursday’s Olympic baseball game between Israel and South Korea, officials drove one of the relief pitchers out on to the field in a bullpen cart in the shape of a baseball mitt throne. Its ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 31 (Reuters) - Carts carrying Olympic relief pitchers to the mound on a big leather glove may be popular with TV viewers, but few of the baseball players who ride them seem to ...

Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading ...

Boston's Craig Kimbrel is about to enter a tense playoff game. The Red Sox lead by one run. It's crunch time. Do or die. The opening strains of "Welcome to the Jungle" invade the air at Fenway Park.

I have said many a mean thing about Major League Baseball. How it's draconian laws on video use has curbed its growth among youth in the digital age. That its lack of salary cap is a death sentence to ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan—Pitcher Jeremy Bleich was lathered up in the bullpen, and he needed to relax. The reliever for Team Israel had just warmed up at Yokohama Stadium to face the U.S., and his mind was ...

Baseball's new pace-of-games rules are designed to enhance the viewing experience for fans, but they can make a pastoral game seem a little too uptight. Pitchers are focused on delivering the ball ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) -Carts carrying Olympic relief pitchers to the mound on a big leather glove may be popular with TV viewers, but few of the baseball players who ride them seem to know how to ...